California Business and Professions Code 12544 – (a) A county sealer intending to suspend the authorization of a …
(a) A county sealer intending to suspend the authorization of a service agency shall notify the service agency in writing of all of the following:
(1) The alleged violations to be used as the basis for suspension.
Terms Used In California Business and Professions Code 12544
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- County: includes city and county. See California Business and Professions Code 17
- Service agency: means a person, as defined in Section 12011, that for hire, award, commission, or any other payment of any kind, repairs a commercial device. See California Business and Professions Code 12531
- Service agent: means a person employed by a service agency to repair a commercial device. See California Business and Professions Code 12531
(2) The proposed duration of the suspension.
(3) The date the suspension is to begin, which may not be sooner than 20 days after a notice is mailed.
(4) The names of service agents to be affected by the suspension.
(5) The fact that the service agency or service agent shall be provided the opportunity for an investigational hearing prior to the suspension.
(6) The fact that the service agency or service agent may be represented by legal counsel.
(7) The fact that the service agency or service agent may appeal to the department prior to imposition of a suspension.
(b) A copy of the proposed action to the service agency shall be immediately forwarded to the department.
(c) The department may, as a result of the investigative hearing, declare the suspension to be effective in additional counties.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 364, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2000.)